Mary Gaitskill, geboren 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky, ist eine der renommiertesten nordamerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart. Der internationale Durchbruch gelang ihr mit der Kurzgeschichte »Secretary«, die unter gleichnamigem Titel verfilmt wurde. Ihre Erzählungen und Romane brachten ihr Nominierungen für den PEN/Faulkner Award und den National Book Award ein. Sie lebt in Brooklyn, New York.
Barbara Heller lebt als Diplomübersetzerin aus dem Englischen, Niederländischen und Französischen in Heidelberg. Zu ihrer Liste von über sechzig Autorinnen und Autoren gehören u. a. George Simenon, Agatha Christie, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Anne Fine, Connie Palmen und Sophie van der Stap.
Rudolf Sorge ist Diplom-Übersetzer und übersetzt seit vielen Jahren Bücher aus dem Englischen.
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Mary Gaitskill: Because They Wanted To
A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.A New York Times Notable Book A man tells a story to a woman si …
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Mary Gaitskill: The Mare
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘Bold, dramatic and deeply unsettling’ Guardian When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a coup …
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Mary Gaitskill: Don’t Cry
‘A writer of prodigious gifts’ Guardian Full of jagged, complex emotion and powerful, incisive writing, the stories in Don’t Cry are a testament to Mary Gaitskill’s incomparable excavation of charact …
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Mary Gaitskill: Veronica
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her care …
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Mary Gaitskill: Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill’s tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals of men and women’s inner lives. As her characters have sex, try and fail to …
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Mary Gaitskill: This is Pleasure
‘Gets deep under your skin … Gaitskill is uniquely attuned to the moment.’ Sunday Times ‘Gaitskill achieves a superb feat. She distils the suffering, anger, reactivity, danger and social recalibrat …
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Mary Gaitskill: Bad Behavior. Schlechter Umgang
»Eigensinnig und höchst originell, mit diesem Rhythmus und den besonderen Wendungen, die einen umhauen, wenn man es am wenigsten erwartet – reines Lesevergnügen!« Alice Munro. Endlich wieder auf Deut …
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Mary Gaitskill: Lost Cat
‘Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail.’ — New York Times’Last year I lost my cat Gattino. He was very young, at seven months barely an adolescent. He is probably dead but …
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Marlene Van Niekerk: Agaat
“I was immediately mesmerized . . . as brilliant as it is haunting.” —Toni Morrison In 1940s apartheid South Africa, Milla de Wet discovers a child abandoned in the fields of her family farm. Ignorin …
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Mary Gaitskill: Because They Wanted To
‘A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times’ Independent’Mesmerizing – almost ecstatic’ The New York Times Mary Gaitskill’s coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories expl …
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Mary Gaitskill: Das ist Lust
»Extrem klug, kraftvoll und differenziert über #Me Too.« THE GUARDIAN. Im New Yorker veröffentlicht, wurde Mary Gaitskills Erzählung vielfach als das Beste gerühmt, was bislang zur #Me Too-Debatte ge …
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Amy Scholder: Icon
“In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons.” —Publishers Weekly Whose poster hung on your wall as a teena …
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Mary Gaitskill: Two Girls, Fat and Thin
The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour’Dark, menacing and original’ Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy Never – fat – lives alone in New York, eats and w …
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Mary Gaitskill: The Devil’s Treasure
“What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I’ve been criticized— and sometimes admired—for what some reade …
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Mary Gaitskill: Oppositions
‘Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought the …
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Mary Gaitskill: Veronica
»Gaitskill verdient ein Denkmal für diesen schönen, niederschmetternden Roman.« Elle. Alison und Veronica lernen sich im nächtlichen Glamour des New York der 1980er Jahre kennen: ein Topmodel nach dr …
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Mary Gaitskill: The Little Boy
From the award-winning, bestselling author of THE MARE As Mrs Bea Davis waits in the airport for her flight home after a strained visit to her daughter, she notices a bashful-looking little boy and h …
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Various: Hurricanes in Perfect Power
A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________’To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect powe …
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Mary Gaitskill: Two Girls, Fat and Thin
This captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill’s "fine storyteller’s pace and brilliant metaphors&qu …
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